Grub not properly installing.

[Goh Lip]

On 27/12/09 20:39, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> I am installing Karmic on a desktop with two root partitions for
> different distros. Currently Jaunty is in sdb1 and Karmic is in sdb2.
> The bios is configured to boot from sdb and when installing Karmic I
> confirmed in the Advanced tab that Grub will be installed to sdb.
> However, Grub remained unchanged when installing and there is no
> option for booting from sdb2.
>
> I figured that I would edit the grub menu in sdb1/boot/grub/menu.lst
> however there is a good chance that I will be testing other distros in
> sdb1 so I do not want to rely on it. I tried reinstalling Grub from a
> LiveCD with the following command but there was no change in
> behaviour:
> sudo grub-install --root-directory=/media/root /dev/sdb
>
> How does one configure Grub to use menu.lst from sdb2 instead of from sdb1?
>
Dotan, as Tommy pointed out, karmic does not use grub-legacy; 
grub-install at livecd does not transfer karmic *partition*s's grub to 
sdb1, it moves the livecd's grub, which is basically empty.

A workaround is to chainload your grub-legacy to that karmic partition's 
grub, (which is not exactly what you wanted), but will boot your karmic. 
 From there, try the sudo grub-install /dev/sdb

But, Dotan, not sure about your bios setting to boot from sdb instead of 
sda. Do you have any boot in sda?

Happy New Year.

Goh Lip